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Curespotting (06/10/17)

06/06/17

The Cure are mentioned in this Guardian article about the classic music show, 'Snub TV': "The Cure’s Robert Smith loved Snub TV so much he requested his band appear on it."
And they did. Watch the episode here. Thanks, @honeyinmyveins.

03/08/17 - "Robert was just mentioned in the most recent episode of Stan Lee's Lucky Man (S02E02). James Nesbitt's character Harry, remarks to his daughter about her bad eyeliner "Oh my God, Robert Smith in the Flesh" Of course she replies "Who?"..... aaaaagggh!! " (Thanks Jarlath)

05/11/15 - "I am reading "The London Compendium" - a Street by Street exploration of the hidden Metropolis, by Ed Glinert ( a very serious and fantastic book, full of very interesting stories if you love London,like i do) and i came upon this!!! How weird is that!!!" From the listing for The Gargoyle / Gossip's.
(Thanks Perfect.Murder)

04/19/15 - John Lydon, in his book Anger is an Energy, mentions Robert and The Cure. (Thanks Filip)

02/24/15 - "There is a new French movie in theaters in France called Bis that tells the story of 2 guys travelling back in time to 1986. In a scene where the guys are taken for a ride at the back of a car, they used Inbetween days as soundtrack." (Thanks Sylvain)

02/09/15 - "filmmaker Mike Leigh came on to collect his BAFTA Fellowship last night to an accompaniment of The Caterpillar!" (Thanks @SoMuch2Answer4 & @waswasere)

01/28/15 - "there was a great moment on this week's episode of the HBO Show "Togetherness" where the mom is getting dressed while singing an entire verse of "Lets Go To Bed" to her baby. It was hilarious."

01/27/15 - "I was watching "Cougar Town" on TBS last week and the Andy character was bemoaning the fact that his best friend had moved away . He was talking about the pain he was in and said he understands those Goth kids now , and exclaimed "The Cure Rules !" (Thanks Larra)

08/22/14
Live BBC interview with Paramore at Reading Festival 22nd August

Interviewer: What makes [Reading Festival] so special?

Hayley Williams: It's definitely the legacy for sure. The last time we played this we played with The Cure. To have bands like that come out and there's all sorts of up and coming bands. It's a great festival to be part of. (Thanks Warren)

We were up at Genetic Studios. Depeche Mode were walking around and Robert Smith came out and I thought: "Oh my God, it's Robert Smith".

And I said: "What you doing, how's it going?" and he said: "Yeah yeah great," carrying an entire crate of scotch into the studio, his hair all combed back that looked like a cat had put its paw in an electric socket.

And I said: "What are you going to call it?"

"Dunno. I had a dream last night. Something about a head on a door, so I think I'm going to call it The Head On The Door. How's it going with you?"

They then played 'The Lovecats' video. (Thanks Warren)

08/07/14

"2 Weeks ago I was with my family in Side (near Antalya, Turkey) for some nice holiday on the Beach. During walking through the small city with all the shops I saw a Pub called "Stones" and on the wall this picture was painted: The Last Supper by da Vinci, but instead of Jesus and all the Apostles, there is Mick Jagger and right next to him Robert! Then there are other famous musicians out of the scene like John Lennon, Michael Jackson and so on." (Thanks Reto)

Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst "You're just a waste of time/You're just a babbling face/You're just three sick holes" — these are just some of the compliments Robert Smith paid his old friend Lol Tolhurst on 1987 track 'Shiver And Shake' shortly before Tolhurst left The Cure. Amazingly he was back in 2011 for a few shows, no longer wasting everyone's time. (Thanks Zap)

07/14/14 - 'Same Deep Water As You' was used on the BBC's The One Show, during a segment about rubbish in a local community. (Thanks @AaronLaw92)

05/19/14

I watched a movie called 'The Wait' last night, and what happens out of the blue? Chloe Sevigny puts on The Cure's 'Sugar Girl'! Plays almost the entire song. Loved it! It's on Netflix streaming, so if you want to watch it, it starts at 31:25 or watch most of the scene here. See Chloe Sevigny & Jena Malone dance to 'Sugar Girl'. :)

04/23/14 - I'm currently reading 'The Bird Eater' by Ania Ahlborn and came across this: "Come on, Scary." A nickname he'd given her long ago, born of her penchant for all things spooky - movies, books, The Cure."

04/09/14

"the 80's retro show #goldbergs just used Just Like Heaven for a kids birthday montage scene. It kind of worked. " (Thanks @Anjijade and Lisa)

"I just saw a Sprint commercial with a "goth" character and a hilariously bad knockoff of "Lullaby" in the background. It starred Judy Greer and one of the new SNL castmembers, so look out for that if you want a laugh. " (Thanks Amorn)

"I had a curespotting moment at the Trentemoller concert @ The Fonda Theater this last Saturday and thought I send it over... Lullaby guitar intro to their song Moan. I took video of it, here's the link" (Thanks Gabriel)

03/27/14 - 'Just Like Heaven' was used in the debut episode of the new Fox comedy, Surviving Jack. (Thanks @ebbhead)

11/08/13 - Maisie Williams, Arya on Game of Thrones, picks The Cure's 'Close To Me' for her BBC Radio 1 My Playlist feature (at the 30 minute mark). (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

11/08/13 - "I wanted to let you know that the latest episode of my web comic, A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, includes a person who looks a lot like Cure frontman Robert Smith. There are also jokes about big 80s hair." (Thanks David)

05/13/13 - "At the end of Monday's (May 13th) episode of Syfy's program "Defiance" titled "The Serpent's Egg", The Cure's "Love Song" was prominently featured, as a character played it (on vinyl) on the radio for the entire community in the series, and the episode closed out with other scenes as the song continued to play." Watch it here at the 41:00 mark. (Thanks FifthDream)

05/13/13 - "I was just watching the BBC documentary "Stephen Fry - The Secret Life Of the Manic-Depressive", which b.t.w. is definitely worth checking out, when i saw Bob's lovely snout and a few copies of "Join the Dots" 47 minutes and 31 seconds into part 2! Brilliant!" (Thanks Laurent)

04/13/12 - "Friday I'm In Love was used on a pro-Thatcher documentary in the UK this evening...the soundtrack to a bit about yuppies...who approved that then?!!" (Thanks Lemon Lies)

03/28/13 - This hilarious Craigslist ad for a used car features an appearance by Robert "Most Seductive Human Ever Around" Smith. Read the full story at Adweek, and if you decide to buy this car, get that abacus ready! :) (Thanks for a great laugh, Zap)

03/20/13 - A large part of 'Siamese Twins' was used in tonight's episode of The Americans on the FX Network. (Thanks broaddaylight)

03/09/13 - "Friday I'm in Love was on the radio in a scene on UKs biggest soap - Coronation Street" (Thanks @colinaindow)

03/08/13 - "The Cure appear in new Dave Grohl movie @soundcity. Quick photo with Ross Robinson as he talks about studio influence." (Thanks @wichid1)
"There's a brief section where the producers talk (In which Ross is included), and this picture is shown." (Thanks Nico Fonticelli & Emi Herrera)

03/05/13 - From French GQ: "The band The Cure, especially in the 80s, also seems to be the indisputable heirs dark romanticism. "Again, says Pascal Rousseau, the exterminating angel imagery nineteenth turns into a zombie." Robert Smith makeup, her hair can evoke the painter Fussli Nightmare (1781). While the cover of Disintegration (1989) points out very clearly the symbolism of Odilon Redon (1840-1916). The Australian singer Nick Cave and the British group Depeche Mode are other "icons of this figure of melancholy" for the art historian, who also found the influence of this current in the "cold wave, deliberately cold Bauhaus or Cabaret Voltaire. " Group which has not the coffee's birthplace Zurich Dada Surrealism ancestor." (Thanks David)

02/28/13 - From Otakia: "Page 52: The character of Oper Smisse derives its name and design from Robert Smith British singer of the rock band The Cure ." (Thanks David)

02/26/13 - "Not sure whether you have heard / read this story before. I have been amazed recently by the Beijing indie rock scene, especially bands like Carsick Cars, Snapline and PK 14. It turns out that our favorite band had an unintended role in helping some of these bands to flourish because of their 2007 Hong Kong gig." (Thanks Marcos)

02/24/13 - "Blink 182 mentioned Robert Smith at the very beginning of this video <All Of This> Live at Sydney 21Feb." (Thanks @SixDifferentWay)

02/22/13

- "Seen this? Best-Selling Albums re-imagined as books. Includes The Head on the Door" (Thanks @honeyinmyveins)

02/21/13 - "I did an interview with the Swedish band Shout Out Louds who mentioned The Cure as an inspiration. Also, the first song on their new album sounds very much like The Cure. It is called "Sugar"." (Thanks Jonatan)

01/26/13 - French TV presenter Nikos Aliagas says he was a big Cure fan when he was young. (Thanks David)

01/19/13 - From Q (Feb. 2013): Comedian Matt Berry includes 'Other Voices' on his Music For Insomniacs album.
(Thanks Perfect.Murder)

12/29/12 - "I'm watching french/german tv Arte, there's a documentary about a chief working in London then New York. Showing a teenage picture holding a Cure t-shirt from the Lullaby era." (Thanks David)

12/27/12 - "The introduction of "Just like heaven" was used as the theme tune of a documentary on the Opéra de Paris called "La danse à tout prix", broadcast on the French channel France 2 on Wednesday December 27 at 23.45." (Thanks Alice)

12/21/12 - Part of Nic Adler's (owner of The Roxy Theatre) perfect Saturday includes drinking Jasmine green tea while listening to The Cure. (Thanks David)

- From a Tim Burton interview with La Depeche (English): "I listen to a lot of inspiration for my music and it's true that I love The Cure, but I've never used their music in my films." (Thanks David)

- And Winona Ryder tells PurePeople (English) about an early conversation she had with Tim Burton at a screen test for Beetlejuice: "I arrived for an early testing. And for half an hour in the hallway, I discussed the Cure and Edward Gorey with a young man who had the same gothic look as me. When I told him I had an appointment with Tim Burton, he told me all shy, "But in fact, it's me '." (Thanks David)

- Dan Boeckner tells Speakeasy that he and fellow Divine Fits member Britt Daniel, are huge Cure fans: "Britt and I both are huge Cure fans. Specifically, that last song we played before the encore, “For Your Heart,” The Cure was a really big influence on me writing that. I was living at Britt’s house for four months in L.A. He’s got a huge record collection, so I just started going back through the catalog of stuff I listened to when I was a teenager. He’s got a whole bunch of Cure records." (Thanks Jorge)

- "On the Facebook Page of The Twilight Sad: Tonight we play Kansas City with Errors. I have been listening to The Cure on our 8 hour drive to the gig http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcMEx4OHLOs
James & Toto" (Thanks fmjews)

- "Not sure if this is one, but in the craft beer community, IBU stands for International Bittering Units, “The International Bittering Units scale, or simply IBU scale, provides a measure of the bitterness of beer, which is provided by the hops used during brewing. Bittering units are measured through the use of a spectrophotometer and solvent extraction.” WIKIPEDIA.

- "this is funny. i saw a link to win a trip on the QM2 and on the page is a london bus with 'wish' artwork." (Thanks Brian)

11/04/12

- "last night i went to the cinema to see "io e te", the new movie from italian director bernardo bertolucci, taken from the novel "io e te" by niccolò ammaniti, an italian writer (i love very much!). less than 3 minutes from the beginning of the movie, there's a scene in which lorenzo (one of the two main characters) listens to "boys don't cry" through his headphones...it was a nice surprise for me!! ..i didn't know anything about the soundtrack." (Thanks Emanuele)

- "Never Enough played during party scene in Fresh Meat on UK's Channel 4" (Thanks Adam)

- "Gaz Coombes talks (briefly) about meeting Robert on a plane in 95. Starts at 09.45." (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

- Jenny Lee from Warpaint tells Rock The Vote that she was obsessed with The Cure in high school. (Thanks Pops)

- Pop Campaign tells New Life that their new album was influenced by "the conciseness of '17 Seconds'. (Thanks Spencer)

- The Saline Project speaks to the Huffington Post about working with Robert Smith on the 'alt.end' video

- BB Brunes talks (English) about the influence The Cure and New Wave have on them. (Thanks David)

- "The xx interviewed today (Sept. 25th) on french tv France 5 during a culture magazine called 'Entrée Libre'. The band talks about its love for The Cure music, listening to them since they were born. Few seconds of 'Primary' video being shown." (Thanks David)

- "I was just reading the Guardian online and saw that Primary has made it into a "Songs with the best basslines" list." (Thanks Joanne)

- "Waves, the famous producers of high-quality, and often also highly expensive, audio plugins have come up with a new digital toy for the masses: a non-linear summer. Basically, what this plugin does is model the part of analog consoles in which all channels come together, hence the name "summer". One of the consoles they used as a reference is the one belonging to Mike Hedges, famous for his work with The Cure!" (Thanks Laurent)

08/17/12 - "just wanted to let you know that there is a one page joke about impatience when a new album is due out with a Cure reference in the comic Les Identites Remarquables."
(Thanks Fabien G) 08/04/12 - "A Forest was just used on the BBC's Olympic 2012 programme. Celebrating women's sporting achievement." (Thanks @MrJohnLogan)

08/03/12 - "They played Close To Me at the Olympic stadium track & field a few mins ago :)" (Thanks @majorcure)

07/27/12 - "BBC just used a forest on their Olympic 2012 opening ceremony build up programme." (Thanks John, Warren, Adam)

07/26/12

- "i just want to let you know, that in germany there is a newcomer band "Kraftklub".
There hit single is a song called "kein liebeslied" --> "no lovesong".

In the lyrics there is a sentence about the cure:

"Ich liebe Liebeslieder, aber ich kann sie nicht schreiben. Es liegt nicht am Image, liegt nicht an der Frisur, ich bin nicht Robert Smith und wir sind nicht The Cure."
translated:
"I love lovesongs but i can't write them. Its not about the image, its not about the hair, I'm not Robert Smith and we are not the cure"." (Thanks TheVinc)

- Noticed a couple days ago that IOTWCS was listed along with other sleep-related songs on the website for Dream Water. And they call it one of the "Classics that never get old – they just age like a fine wine." (Thanks Christian)

07/21/12

- Entertainment Weekly. #1217 July 27, 2012. The Hit List.
Robert Smith fills time after the Cure's keyboards break during festival gig by playing solo unplugged set. No drums. No bass. Just a man and his guitar... and eyeliner, mascara, foundation, lipstick, and hairspray. (Thanks Kate and Cin)

- From the Kansas City Star: Jesse Kates of Sexy Accident says The Cure have hugely influenced the way he arranges songs, and that he loves Boris Williams. (Thanks David)

- French band Brigitte mentions The Cure in magazine Rock&Folk in its "my records" section. (Thanks David)

07/13/12 - From Phoenix New Times: Former Friends of Young Americans Talk The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Sonic Youth & A Tribe Called Quest. (Thanks Aaron)

07/04/12 - From Entertainment Weekly #1214 July 6, 2012. Music > Albums > Page 73. "DIIV. "Oshin". One of the best things about the Cure in their '80s prime was the way that Robert Smith would take his sweet time, letting those lovesick guitars live full lives before ever saying a word. Brooklyn Cure acolytes DIIV have obviously spent some time in Smith & Co.'s musical batcave; "Oshin"'s moody, reverb-soaked hooks and unrushed vocals induce a similar state of hazy-pop bliss. B+ - Ray Rahman
(Thanks Kate)

- 'The Funeral Party' is included on the soundtrack to the new film 'Laurence Anyways'. (Thanks David)

- "today on french tv France 2 quizz show 'Tout le monde veut prendre sa place', there was a music question "Who sang that in '92?", and they played an extract of 'high'. The young lady answered right." (Thanks Fab G)

- A 2007 report from Liberation about The Cure at Fuji Rock. (Thanks David)

- From The Aquarian: "I would say if The Cure and Sleater-Kinney had a baby, and then that baby grew up and maybe drank too much one night and ended up having a threesome with Rilo Kiley and a Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack, and somehow a baby was born of that… we would be that baby!” exclaims Jessica Chaos, describing the sound of Plastiq Passion." (Thanks David)

- "In a new French rock mag called Rock First. About the good albums to discover The Cure discography. Nothing interesting but a nice picture of Robert in a black jacket." (Thanks David)

- "French tv broadcast called 'Star story' about Adele this week. Mentioned The Cure and Joy Division and showed a few seconds of 'Inbetween Days' video." (Thanks David)

- The Cure get a mention in this "Goth for Life" article in The Guardian. The paper also included a photo from 2008. (Thanks Perfect.Murder and Steven)

- "An unexpected Curespotting, I was at Ikea and they were selling framed pictures of big cities. Among them was London. :)" (Thanks Julie)

- "plasmatron (stuart braithwaite of mogwai) on twitter: Preparing for record store day tomorrow by listening to some records I bought today. #everydayisrecordstoredayyo

followed shortly by - Ace Of Spades by Motörhead 12" with the Santa Cover, All Fall down by Primal Scream on 7" and Charlotte Sometimes by The Cure on 7"." (Thanks Lindsey)

- "In this NME video where Pete Doherty shows around his Paris flat....he flicks through some of his records and... there goes Inbetween Days 7"single`! :)...starts at 1.50." (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

- "I just recently found an interview in a local media ( http://www.frente.com.mx/) talking about drastic changes in the line up of a popular mexican group called Fobia. In this interview are a couple of Cure references i would like to share.

How do you came up with this line up? Is it temporary?
I [..] contacted [...] Federico Fong [...] and invited to show him some stuff. I asked for his help and he was glad to do it so.[...] He likes the same records i like of Siouxie and The Cure, so there is a connection i like to have with the person who plays in the band.

I strongly believe that after all you've been through is hard to imagine Fobia disbanding, unless it is extremely necessary. I mean, i can imagine Fobia changing, adapting to your ages, but it will never disappear…
The band that we have always looked up to and that has been a direct inspiration is The Cure and i think that this is the group that has had the most changes in its story. What makes it interesting is that every line up has its phase and a 'flavour'. Of course it is sad not being with your friends anymore, we will miss their company, their jokes and their habits.
You can see the full interview here." (Thanks Oscar)

02/28/12 - "The Cure were mentioned in Nemi, a cartoon which was published in today's (Feb. 27th) Metro, a free newspaper that is distributed in the UK." (Thanks Fab G)

02/15/12

- The soundtrack for 'The Vow' includes 'Pictures of You'. The song is also used for a scene in the film. (Thanks Andythecurefan)

- Pixies posted this photo on their Facebook of Robert with Black Francis backstage at the Crystal Palace Bowl from June 1991. (Thanks Lisa)

- "In the new Smashing Pumpkins 1993 Metro DVD that comes with the deluxe version of the Siamese Dream reissue that came out in November, Billy mentions Seventeen Seconds in the banter before "Drown" (He jokes about being Billy's evil twin because Billy is "busy being sad and listening to Seventeen Seconds")." (Thanks Josh)

- Interview with Daniel Radcliffe in The Scotsman: "But Radcliffe prefers to compare himself to Robert Smith, who still smears on the lipstick whenever he takes The Cure on tour. “Someone asked him why he still dresses the way he does onstage. And he said, ‘It’s because people come to my shows dressed like that. And if they look and see me not dressed like that, it’s somehow a betrayal.’”
Like Smith, Radcliffe wants to be both graceful and grateful in acknowledging the affection of fans for the Boy Who Lived. “It’s something I’m very, very proud of,” he assures me."
(Thanks Halo Cure)

- Jean-Benoit Dunckel of Air tells Pitchfork: "(When I was 15.........) It was the beginning of independent radio in France, so there were some really high-profile artistic programs. I discovered Kraftwerk, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order. I remember passing a lot of time by drinking and smoking and listening to the Cure." (Thanks Filip)

- "Amanda Palmer mentions Robert Smith in her new blog:
(After meeting Richard o'Brian) "what is it about coming to australasia and meeting my fucking soul heroes? stop, already. if i bump into robert smith at a water fountain while jogging in wellington, i’m going to just kill myself. does robert smith do his hair like that when he jogs? DOES ROBERT SMITH JOG?? i wonder these things." (Thanks AndrewV127)

- "I was on BBC 6 Music yesterday (Jan. 30th) talking about ’Darts’ in a feature called ‘Song of Praise’. Anyway I get to pick a song at the end & chose ‘Push’ - we had a brief chat about The Cure as well. (Thanks Benj/Fatpie)

- "reading dj premier interviews: TWV: What do you listen to in your spare time?
DJ Premier: Rock. New Age. AC/DC, U2, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs. I like Iron Maiden, Pantera, classic Van Halen, Zeppelin. I listen to that a lot, more than Hip Hop, because Hip Hop is automatic. It’s like speaking Spanish. Like I can speak English one day and Spanish on another day. Hip Hop is my Spanish. Not everyone understands the language, but I do." (Thanks Lindsey)

01/25/12

- "Lullaby was just used in a documentary on BBC2 called 'Natural World: Jungle Gremlins'. Loris poison kills slugs." (Thanks James)

- "I was watching anthony bourdain's "layover" last night on food something or other. he goes to london at a private drinking club there's a photo of deano and frank, and above it is a still from the lullaby video."

01/20/12 - "On Nevermind the Buzzcocks tonight (UK music quiz) in the "guess the intro" round singer Cee Lo and comedian Noel Fielding had to hum the intro to Close to Me. The guy on their team having to guess the song was Chris Packham, presenter of Springwatch (which you may remember for all it's Cure references, put in by him and put into a youtube compilation a while back, which you shared) He guessed the song correctly. Noel Fielding then said: Hey, Robert Smith used to get me laid! … No, not that he came round to my house… you know what I mean! Then the presenter (Comedian Robert Web) said: Robert Smith said that Duran Duran represented everything he hated about the 80s. So out of the miners strike, Zeebrugge, Chernobyl (forgot the other stuff he named) it was Wild Boys that was the problem. Also the Springwatch presenter mentioned that he did Cure references on the show and said how getting "Killing and Arab" in there was his biggest achievement." (Thanks Vicky and Robert)Note: This episode originally aired on Dec. 30th, 2010. Watch it here.

01/19/12 - 'Faith' and 'Pictures of You' are used in the new French film Café De Flore. (Thanks @VDCFred)

01/06/12 - There's something called Goths Up Trees, and now there's a photo of Robert up a tree. Now you know. : ) (Thanks Heron and AutumnCure)

- "I was playing this game typeracer (hahah) and one of the races, the lyrics to "disintegration" popped up. I got 102 words per minute!" (Thanks Lindsey)

- "The very excellent Trentemoller has put a mix up on his Soundcloud page with ‘Faith’ on it near the end." (Thanks Barry)

- Surf Lady Veronica Grey takes her Robert Smith doll along for her appearance on Fox5 News in Las Vegas. (Thanks sad giraffe)

- Robert Downey, Jr. says he looks like "the singer of The Cure and the dwarf brother of Arnold Schwarzenegger!" (Thanks David)

- The Robber Smisse character in the Wakfu comic is said to be an allusion to Robert Smith. (Thanks David)

- French singer Vincent Delerm says he loved The Cure when he was younger. (Thanks David)

12/01/11 - BBC 6 Music is airing a 2 part documentary on Goth, and naturally, The Cure are mentioned. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

11/20/11 - "We know the creator of Degrassi is a Cure fan due to a lot of their episodes being named after songs, but here's a clip where they actually used 'Not In Love' by Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith. It was Season 11, Episode 29: Dead.and.Gone (Part 2). Original air date: September 4th, 2011" (Thanks Andythecurefan)

- The song 'Alex' by Girls is said to "represent just how greatly Girls has changed its sound — while Girls’ previous sound resembled the Beach Boys, “Alex” unexpectedly sounds more like a combination of Elliot Smith’s vocals, The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven,” and Silversun Pickups’ “Lazy Eye.” (Thanks David)

10/27/11

- "In Between Days is being used by Nextel in a TV ad in Chile." (Thanks Roberto)

- Illustration of Robert used in this Businessweek book review of 'I Want My MTV'. (Thanks Scott)

- "Friday Oct. 21st, on MSNBC's Martin Bashir show "why cant I be you" was being played during a segment called "top lines"." (Thanks Coffee)

09/17/11 - "Australian celebrity chef Bill Granger was a Robert Smith fan as a kid, dyed hair black etc said it on this BBC programme." (Thanks Adam)

08/28/11 - "Long running BBC Radio 4 show ran a Desert Island Discs poll for listeners to choose their 8 pieces of music they’d take with them on to said Island. The Cure were ranked 85 in the most popular artist." (Thanks Benj/fatpie)

08/28/11 - Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite was wearing a Cure t-shirt on stage at Flow festival in Helsinki last sunday. i was wearing one in the audience. ;)" (Thanks Antti)

08/28/11 - Top 10 jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest - 7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure." (Thanks Ed, IrishCure, Vicky, and Perfect.Murder)

08/28/11 - "A Cracked "listicle" includes Robert Smith as an example of how emotions can change how your food tastes. (at least they used a decent photo of him) (Thanks Heron)

08/28/11 - Just noticed that there's a song on the new Stephin Merritt album, Obscurities, that he describes as a tribute to The Cure: "Rats in the Garbage of the Western World”

My tribute to the Cure. When Erik Davis wrote our first major album review in the Village Voice, he favorably contrasted us with “the inexplicable popularity of the Cure.” I demur; “Boys Don’t Cry” is the best song of the New Wave." (Thanks Steven)

08/08/11 - "Interpol were playing at the Lokerse Feesten, in Lokeren, Belgium, this past Saturday. The last track to entirely come through the P.A. before the band hit the stage was none less that The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven'! That was fun to hear. Also, the LCD screens were showing a few bits and pieces of info about the band before they came on, and one of the screens said that Robert Smith had single-handedly picked the band to come tour with The Cure in 2004." (Thanks Laurent)

08/04/11 - "Few seconds of 'Lullaby' video as The Cure were mentioned as one of the mythical bands of 1989 during a french TV show called 'Generation Top 50' which comes back on a very popular chart TV broadcast. Also, few seconds of Robert in 'Inbetween Days' video during another show
called 'Star Story' on french TV Direct Star in an episode about the 80's." (Thanks David)

08/04/11 - Gizmodo's "How to Use Spotify" features the user looking for tracks from The Cure." (Thanks Heron)

07/21/11 - 'Play For Today' is featured in the new anti nuclear documentary 'Countdown to Zero' out August 15th in the UK. (Thanks Sam)

07/21/11 - Robert gets a photo and a mention in this August 2011 Q article about the Summertime Blues.
(Thanks JC/Perfect.Murder)

07/21/11 - Robert gets mentioned in this article about the revival of MTV's 120 Minutes, and in this article about Blackpool. (Thanks Kate)

07/21/11 - The Cure's 2002 set at Les Vieilles Charrues is listed as one of the highlights of the festival's 20 years. (Thanks David)

07/21/11 - The guys at Biascagne Cicle have built a 'Friday I'm in Love' bike. : ) (Thanks bob)

06/18/11 - "Watching NBC4 (Washington, DC) Saturday morning news (6/18/11) - prior to the break, they did a story about that annoying "Friday" song and how it's been taken down from You Tube. One of the anchors compared it to an ice pick in the ear. When they came back from the break to do weather, they were still talking about it. The weather guy referenced The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love" and how the other "Friday" song made The Cure's that much better! I almost spit out my coffee!" (Thanks Barbi)

06/10/11 - From the NME "First Album I Ever Bought" feature:
Jenny Lee Lindberg (Warpaint) - 'Disintegration', The Cure. "I was in eighth grade. Me and my friend danced to the singles collection 'Staring At The Sea' for four hours one afternoon, and I got obsessed with them. I couldn't believe a band like this existed. I actually lost my virginity to 'Pictures Of You'."
(Thanks JC/Perfect.Murder)

06/10/11 - "While my family was on vacation in Oak Island NC we stopped by Crazy Cake Chicks. All of their cup cakes are named after song titles. My son pointed out one named Just Like Heaven. It's just not every day I see something named after The Cure and I thought you might like to know about it." (Thanks Amanda)

06/10/11 - From Entertainment Weekly magazine, #1159, June 17, 2011 - The Return of No Doubt by Dave Karger:
STEFANI: Don't you feel like when we listen to so much stuff that we love and we're like "Oh, man, I wish we could be like the Cure!"? But everything only sounds like us. I wanna be Depeche Mode so bad, but I just don't sound like them. (Thanks Kate)

05/23/11 - From Spin: "Tom Smith also had a more personal motive to take part in the process: "It puts me on an album with Robert Smith," the Editors man says of the Cure singer, who contributes vocals on the Popstars song "Take Forever." Reminder: You can hear 2 samples of 'Take Forever' here and here.

05/17/11 - "I was at a gig of Belgian band "Intergalactic Lovers" last week (at the Depot in Leuven, should someone care), and somewhere in the set, the lead singer (the girl) was sweating pretty heavy (not only was she giving it her all, it was also awfully hot in that place), and her mascara started running out, and her hair started looking a bit funny. At which point she made a joke about starting to look like Robert Smith...Feels a bit stupid when written down like this, but it felt priceless in the moment! (Thanks Laurent)

05/11/11 - "yesterday (tuesday) on french radio Europe 1 quizz game, two references about the band: first, big one: "who did the music intro for the rock program 'les Enfants du Rock?', with a little extract of just like heaven (and a comment of Pierre Lescure, a producer involved in the program at the time).
second, less important "who didn't follow the rule and kissed the president on the cheek?" and Robert Smith was among the possible answers (answer was JP Papin , a soccer player who won a cup final in the 80's, the whole program was about the 80's to celebrate the 30 anniversary of the election of François Mitterand for president)." (Thanks Fabien G)

05/10/11 - From The Sun: Sean Penn looks like The Cure's Robert Smith in shot from new film. (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

05/09/11 - "In the "Concert Films, FTW" category of tonight's Geeks Who Drink pub quiz, they played snippets of a performance and you had to name either the artist (for one point) or the name of the concert film (for two points). Question #4 was a snippet of "A Strange Day" from Trilogy." (Thanks V)

04/28/11 - From Spinner: Airborne Toxic Event Learn About Death While Getting Drunk With Robert Smith. (Thanks Kate)

04/28/11 - Robert (or the Sad Panda version of him) makes an appearance in the Hijinks Ensue webcomic. Bonus points for all of the Doctor Who references. : ) (Thanks Hannah)

04/27/11 - Gastronuts, a kids show about food on BBC1, talking about how close humans are to monkeys, the soundtrack? Close to Me by The Cure." (Thanks Adam)

04/25/11 - "There’s a song by Ian McGlynn called “Digital Killed The Record Store” (sort of inspired by “Video Killed The Radio Star”) that references The Cure and the Disintegration album. Specifically, the lyric goes “Had a crush on a girl that worked at Record Nation / Bought her each and every recommendation / Finally kissed her thanks to The Cure’s Disintegration”. " (Thanks Chris)

04/20/11 - What might British Prime Minister David Cameron look like as a Robert Smith clone? The Daily Mail has an answer! (Thanks Perfect.Murder)

04/20/11 - "I'm staying in a Staybridge Suites and on their hotel channel they are advertising their movie selection called SmoovieTV. The first 30 seconds of The Walk (Everything Mix) is playing in the background on a continuous loop." (Thanks Nicole)

04/03/11 - "Last Sunday (27 March) Secrets was included in the BBC show Countryfile. It is a rather middle class, middle England show about stuff related to the countryside, animals, farming, walking and country pursuits. As I am middle aged myself these days it is my cup of tea! They had an article about fake food (ie food claiming to be “homecooked” or “local”) and there were a few bars of Secrets from 17 Seconds when they were panning around some pies and stuff. I couldn’t believe it and found it quite hilarious! I think people have mentioned before that there is a BBC researcher somewhere that is a Cure fan and this is more evidence to support that theory. It is quite an obscure song to have used!" (Thanks James)

03/27/11 - "A new Australian series started this week titled "Winners and Losers" and the beginning of the pilot episode played an edited version of Lovecats." (Thanks notherbob)

03/27/11 - "This short message to let you know that there is a piece of interesting info about John Button (the famous mysterious fisherman from Standing on a beach sleeve and Killing an Arab video!...) on this page...

ijc2222 says:
if anyone wants to know my grandads name, where the video was done i’m here. or anything else.
the 1st part where he lights a cigarette is rye, east sussex, and the last part where the cafe to the left and beach is camber, east sussex. my grandad is called John Button, he also met the queen in rye in 1966. i have a photo of him presenting the queen some fish. When he died i noticed that the cure had sent a wreath of flowers to my grandad.

I know the man died soon after the video was shot, but I don't remember when exactly (1987? 1988?... Aaaah, makes me feel old too, and excessively nostalgic...). I don't even know how and why he was chosen for the video and the sleeve. Maybe some COF readers know? Or, for that matter, this ijc2222 guy? It would be fun to know the whole story." (Thanks David)

03/27/11 - "I just wanted to drop you line to let you know about some Cure-influenced writing I've had published. Basically, I've had two pieces of short fiction published on some literary journal websites that have been influenced and named after some of my favourite Cure songs - The Drowning Man and The Figurehead. Yes, I'm very much a fan of the early, dark stuff. The stories aren't necessarily related to the lyrics, but the atmosphere of those pieces, and of Faith and Pornography in particular definitely permeated both pieces of work and helped create the imagery in them. Here they are: The Drowning Man and The Figurehead." (Thanks Kenny)

03/19/11 - Rob da Bank, BBC 1 DJ and Bestival director, posted a photo of himself dressed as Robert Smith for the Sunday's Best party.

03/17/11 - "Today on french tv France2 quiz game 'Tout le monde veut prendre sa place', during the part when challengers answer questions to qualify to be the contender to the champion, one question was 'who sang "hunting high and low"?', the 4 proposiions were talk talk, simple minds, cure, a-ha, and the challenger answered wrongly, saying cure." (Thanks Fabien G)

03/17/11 - This Daily Mail story about a real-life Lovecat, has quite a few Cure references in it.

03/14/11 - "The BBC play of the week (for the next few days) is "Black Roses - the Killing of Sophie Lancaster"

Some Cure fans may already be aware of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. This play is 45 minutes long, with poetry being read from her point of view, as well as her mother talking about her.

"All Cats are Grey" plays in the very beginning - it literally brought me to tears, having followed this story early on. At the end of the play, the final notes of the song sound, and it can only be described as haunting.

I've been a Cure fan for nearly 30 years, and the way the music was used, it's given it a whole new meaning for me." (Thanks cin)Update: 'Faith' and 'The Holy Hour' are also used.

03/13/11 - "This week on French/German channel Arte, on Tracks, the band Magnetix talk about their musical influences and they picked up the 'head on the door' vinyl, saying they listened to the cure a lot when they were in high school. They also played a bit of the Close to me (closer mix) video. Check it out here and scroll to 45:00 min into the show." (Thanks Sylvain)

03/13/11 - "Not sure if you have heard Telekinesis or not, but they are a great band from Seattle. Their first album was brilliant and their second album might be a tad better. The band is basically one guy named Michael Benjamin Lerner, but he puts together a band to tour. He played a session and was interviewed on The Current 89.3 on March 8th and he spoke about his love of Disintegration, The Cure in general (six minutes in), and Robert Smith (13 minutes in). The second song on their album "12 Desperate Straight Lines", is called "Please Ask For Help" and is heavily influenced by The Cure. Check it out." (Thanks John)

03/13/11 - The Cure are mentioned in an article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which talks about the lack of "college rock" bands in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (Thanks Kate)

03/12/11 - "today sat 12th, on french tv France 2 game 'Tout le monde veut prendre sa place' (quiz where challengers try to take the place of a champion), there was a quiz about 80's tv programs, and one of the question was "What music program had this musical intro..." - and just like heaven was played. The answer was obviously 'Les Enfants du Rock', very famous and sadly missed great rock tv show for which Smith gave Bernard Lenoir the instrumental intro of jlh. Some of the challengers where not sure of the answer, so the champion said "les Enfants du rock, by the excellent Cure"."Update: Watch it here at 36 minutes. (Thanks Fabien )

03/10/11 - Director Michel Gondry talks to Liberation about attending a Cure show - "I also remember seeing The Cure in concert when I was a teenager. I thought it was beautiful music and at the same time, I understood how it was done and it made me want to be like them." (Thanks David)

03/10/11 - "Crystal Castles won the John Peel Award for Innovation and their singer wore a Boys Don't Cry t-shit at the NME Ceremony." (Thanks David)

03/10/11 - "Episode 1 of Season 2 of the UK "Misfits" tv show used a lengthy bit of Lullaby in the background of a somewhat romantic scene. Weird!" (Thanks Pietro)

03/10/11 - "At the end of today's (March 7th) broadcast of the Blackpool v Chelsea match Sky Sports played "Mint Car". A great end to a great day for a mad keen Cure and Chelsea fan such as myself." (Thanks Curefreak@livejournal)

03/10/11 - "Tonight (wed 2nd march 00h10) on french tv M6 program 'Maison a vendre' (meaning Home for sale, they clean-up/modernise homes that don't find buyers), a few seconds of 'a forest (accoustic hit)' was used as background music." (Thanks Fabien)

03/10/11 - Blurt compares the recent "trilogy" shows from The Church (which were excellent, btw!) to the Cure shows, and gets it so wrong - "Three full albums in one night. We're talking a Springsteen-length concert here. To my knowledge the only other band to have attempted something like this was the Cure, who did a series of Trilogy concerts comprising the albums Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers back in 2002. The key difference is that the Cure is a spectacularly dull live band. The Church, on the other hand, is known for expanding and improving upon its album work, often using the songs as launchpads for inspired flights of improvisation." (Thanks Kate)

03/10/11 - Bernardo Rojo tells the New York Times that he wanted to be like Robert Smith: "In his own career, Mr. Rojo has shown more decisiveness than the Prince of Denmark. The son of an industrialist and a housewife, he went to design school in Madrid, where he loved the punky Movida movement that emerged in the late 1970s after Francisco Franco’s death. “I had a mohawk and wanted to be the guy from the Cure,” he said, referring to the lead singer Robert Smith." (Thanks Kate)

02/21/11 - "Homesick has just been used as backing to an in-between bit on the UK show Dancing On Ice (Feb. 20th, 2011 episode)." (Thanks John)

02/20/11 - Some Robert mentions in the buildup to yesterday's Crawley vs. Manchester United match, which Crawley lost 1-0:

"Manchester United are playing Crawley town tonight in the FA Cup. The Sun mention Robert as a potential fan of Crawley."
(Thanks Darren)

"Sky Sports in the UK were doing a feature on Crawley Town who play Manchester United in the FA Cup (David & Goliath scenario) and they mentioned that the biggest thing to come out of Crawley are The Cure." (Thanks Benj)

02/20/11 - There's a French article about the tv show 'Cold Case', and the way they use music in it, which mentions the episode set in 1982 that uses The Cure's 'Secrets'. (Thanks David)

02/20/11 - "Not sure if this was ever seen or posted..but I just came across a Baby Einstein video with a Cure song, Close to Me. Thought it was a good find. My 1 year old son and I both enjoyed it!" (Thanks Jennifer)

"While on a three day vacation at Disney resort in California, on the end of the third day while shopping at their biggest souvenir store, my 10 year old daughter said "Hey dad what's that music?". Obviously it was Very Good Advice.

Also, yesterday on Netflix via our Wii, I was watching a documentary about competitive 80's video gaming called King of Kong a Fist Full of Quarters. About ten minutes into the film, they made good use of Pictures of You while describing the main subject/person of the film." (Thanks Eli/Carnage Visors)

Note: If you've never seen King of Kong, do yourself a favor and see it!

Shirley Manson of Garbage likes 'Not in Love': "Tip of the day: Not in Love by Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith. It's SOOoooo good." (Thanks V)

A mention of Robert and The Cure in this interview with Dylan Rau from Bear Hands. (Thanks David)

The Daily Nexus says ""If Robert Smith and Kim Gordon had a child in the middle of spring, it would have been called Minks." (Thanks David)

TechEye makes fun of the news of Will.i.am being appointed Intel creative director, by announcing other musicians taking similar jobs, including "The Cure's Robert Smith is now in charge of EMEA public relations at Citrix." (Thanks David)

An instrumental, edited version of 'A Forest', and 'Cold', were played during the BBC show, Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction. (Thanks JC)

Dita Von Teese 'Lullaby' striptease? Anyone have video of this?
"I just saw on RTBF2 (Belgian TV) Dita Von Teese doing a "Chinese/Japanese" stripteese on a very nice Oriental rendition of Lullaby !!!! (At the beginning and some notes at the end. I'd have liked to hear a full version like that.) (Thanks Maniken PYS)

"ESPN Sports Center (Fri 9/24/10) 1pm: Former Vikings running back Robert Smith was announced as: 'Robert Smith, The Cure for College Football Fever'. (Thanks Joseph)

Time-traveling Cure fan? : ) "I have some crazy curespotting for y'all. In the T.V. series This is England '86 - one of the supporting characters can be seen wearing a Bloodflowers T shirt. It's in the second episode of the series at the 10 minute mark. Just thought it was pretty funny to pass along as the show is obviously set in 1986." (Thanks AndrewV127, Steeve, and Ed)

"In the September 3, #1118 issue of Entertainment Weekly, there is an article titled "15 Most Surprising Duets" At number 13 is listed: Blink-182 & the Cure's Robert Smith "All of This" (2003). How the bratty SoCal pop-punks landed Smith, the lipstick-wearing legend of '80s cobweb rock, is anyone's guess. But they rose admirably to the occasion, conjuring this haunting paean to lost love." (Thanks Kate)

"I recently came across this great article on the Hometown Pasadena site which had several unexpected mentions of The Cure, as well as some early KROQ history." (Thanks Michele C.)

"On the front page of the French magazine 'Sport&Style L'Equipe' with football player Thierry Henry, this now famous, deep and funny sentence : 'I'd rather have been a football player than an existentialist. - Robert Smith, The Cure.' (Thanks David)

"In the 25th anniversary issue of SPIN, The Cure ranks 6th out of the 100 moments that rocked our world!! Talks about the Kiss Me album changing goth to adorable. Anyway has a pic of Robert circa '86 in the Betty Boop shirt." (Thanks Jen)

The Cure's 'Dredd Song' came in at #3 on io9.com's list of "The Top 10 Weirdest Songs From Superhero Movies". (Thanks Alexandre)

David Berman of Silver Jews talks to the A.V. Club about meeting Robert in Nashville during the Curiosa tour:
AVC: What happened when you met Robert Smith?
DB: It was after a concert at Starwood, the outdoor pavilion thing. Mogwai was opening, so we were at this afterparty in some kind of large log cabin behind the stage. While onstage, he presents a pretty ratty-mussed-hair-and-sloppy-lipstick fronting, but this is after the show, and he has showered, put on an expensive suit, hair pulled back, and complete white makeup over his face and perfect red lipstick, like a geisha. I tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and smiled and looked up at me, but didn't say a word. I started to speak; my friend Rachel was by my side. I was nervous, and I rattled on about a show in Dallas in 1984 at the Arcadia Theatre, and he looked up with an open expression the whole time as I sputtered and muttered—the music was loud, and I couldn't lean in toward that face—but he never said a word. I just realized that he could have been acting as a mime, so as to be able to meet people but not have to speak. That never occurred to me. I was very embarrassed, and have been much more sympathetic to autograph seekers since then. (Thanks ML)

"Thought you may be interested that on British TV currently there is a daily (Mon-Thurs) show "Spring Watch" (live from a Nature reserve) where one of the co-presenters (Chris Packham) is sprinkling occasional Cure titles into his pieces to camera. This is the second week, and while I have not been watching religiously I have noted... A Forest, Hot Hot Hot, Bird Mad Girl, The Baby Screams, The Upstairs Room, To Wish Impossible Things, Disintegration and Just Like Heaven - there have probably been loads more... it continues all this week! Last season it was The Smiths... A compilation from last year Youtube." (Thanks Simon, John, Dominic, Frazer, and Darren)